Hope/Love:A Shoujo-Ai story.
A Silent Mobius Fan Fiction.

Part two: Sadness|Rage.

I watched Katsumi from behind the plas-steel window. She was now
in a recovery room with padded walls and furniture. But she didn't
do anything...didn't touch anything...except for maybe the food the
staff gave her. Even then she only took a few mouthfuls of food
then let the stuff be.

Part of me wanted to let her be....the other part wanted to slap her
silly....and then another part of me....wanted to hold her. Or at
least be with her for the time being.

"Hang in there..." I murmured "....Katsumi."

"So there you are." A familiar voice hummed. I turned to see our
chief, Mana Isozaki, walk into the observation room. "Worried about
her?"

"Oh...Chief." I uttered, then nodded. "Yeah. Very much so."

"I don't blame you," Mana confessed. "We're all worried about her
and what she's just witnessed. She's in shock."

"Yeah." I nodded. "...and pissed too. I'd be that way too....if
someone took Ralph away from me."

At that moment, A part of me noted that I'd feel the same way about
Katsumi. Especially if we lost her to the Lucifer Hawk. I blinked
at that, then thought of something else. There was no way Katsumi
would sell her soul.

"Hey Chief," I murmured, then smiled. "Would the med techies mind
if I visited her."

She stared at me, then nodded with a smile.

"I don't think so," She murmured. "She might respond to you. You
of all people are the closest to her."

"Thanks." I replied then made my way to her room. I gazed at the
tech who was sitting at his desk "I'd like to see her...is there
a problem with that?"

"Not at all," The girl smiled, then sighed "But I have to warn you
...she's been moody today. She's just in her depressed state right
now."

"I can see that..." I nodded impatiently. "Let me in, please."

"Ah...hai." The techie nodded, poked a few controls then waved me
in. "There you go."

I walked in and Katsumi looked my way. She picked herself off of
the bed then sat up.

"Konban wa, Kiddy." Katsumi tiredly rasped "Come to see me."

"Yeah." I nodded to my team mate and friend. "Thought I could cheer
you up....but I ain't like Yuki....so...."

"Diajobu." Katsumi sighed. "Just you being here is....enough."

I smiled and sat down next to her. Without saying a thing, Katsumi
embrace me and rested her head against mine. Almost immediately I
could feel tear drops pat pat pat against my shoulder.

"Thats it," I replied as I ran a hand through her shoulder. "Let it
out. Let it out, Katsumi."

I shouldn't have said that....even though I knew they were comforting
words....I shouldn't have said it....that way.

What happened next was hazy. One moment I was holding on to her the
next moment I was flat on my ass. Katsumi was howling at the top of
her lungs and glowing with red energy. Energy was crackling around
us. Moments later, I was hauled out of there by a few technicians.

I was plopped down in a seat and fussed over by the techs. I waved
them off. I was just in shock as to how upset and enraged that she
was...and at the fact that she had that much energy...and at the fact that
that energy was being dampened by some odd machinery in that holding
pen.

Now I'm not a scientific genius...but it doesn't take one to know that
Katsumi was being treated more like a wild animal...than a normal human
Being.

The chief and Rally Cheyenne arrived on the scene a minute later. I
looked up at them with a furious expression on my face.

"She's being guarded..." I bit out to them. "Watched...AND shielded. Why
are you doing this?!"

"We're protecting innocent bystanders..." Rally Cheyenne sighed. "From
Katsumi's rage...and the other tiny part of herself."

Put it that way...I could understand. I was a police officer...I protect
citizens from harm. Or at least I try to do so. But this...felt wrong.

"What is it..." Kiddy uttered. "What is about Katsumi that sets her
among the rest? Besides the fact that she's part Lucifer Hawk."

"Katsumi Liquer..." Rally Cheyenne uttered. "may become our greatest
enemy."

"What are you talking about?!" I bit out. "She could never harm us!!
Or join the Lucifer Hawk!!!"

"You're wrong Kiddy," Mana shook her head then spoke up. "She may
actually take that course. That is if she gives up all hope on her
life here."

"That's..." I uttered, then bellowed. "That's absurd! Katsumi would
never do that! Katsumi's not stupid! She's strong!"

With that I ran off down the hall, towards the elevators, and down
To the motor pool.

Sometime later Mana would tell me that I looked helpless, that I was
crying and that I had affection in my eyes...back then I didn't know
why.

But now I do.


End Part II.